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How to check if Tor is working and debug the problem on CLI?
You can use curl to check https://check.torproject.org/api/ip over tor:
curl -x socks5h://localhost:9050 -s https://check.torproject.org/api/ip
Note the h in socks5h. This will ensure dns resolution ...
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Where is the tor log file
By default stdout and stderr of a systemd unit are sent to syslog. On my machine(Kali distro) it is stored in /var/log/syslog. So to see tor unit output run
cat /var/log/syslog | grep tor -i
Or to ...
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How to use Tor with Google Chrome?
From the Arch Linux Wiki:
chromium --proxy-server="socks5://127.0.0.1:9050" --host-resolver-rules="MAP * 0.0.0.0 , EXCLUDE myproxy"
However as the wiki explicitly warns: this will be used for ...
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usewithtor: command not found
usewithtor is deprecated, you want to use torsocks in it's place.
Previously there were various incarnations, the commands were kept for backwards compatibility but torsocks is what torify/usewithtor ...
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Where is the tor log file
Usually Tor stores its log files in /var/log/tor. Depending from the specific settings you'll find /var/log/tor/notices.log, /var/log/tor/log, /var/log/tor/info.log, etc.
The option Log in torrc ...
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How do I set up a Tor relay as a docker container?
Foreword
Docker defines a container as a "A standardized unit of software" [1] and does in a nutshell provide the tooling needed to create self-contained containers - think of little neatly-...
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Serious TCP Bug in Linux Systems?
What we can do to protect ourselves as VPN/Tor users?
Note that the attack itself is targeted at the service, not the client (I.E. tor relay, not the tor client) so there isn't much you can do. If ...
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How to use tor with a program in shell?
From the README:
The getxbook program downloads books anonymously. Using it will still
result in your IP address being logged (use
torify to stop this)...
torify is tool that attempts to wrap ...
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Use Tor browser as non-root Linux
You can run any command as a different user using sudo:
sudo -u my_user tor-browser-en
If you need to use multiple commands you can do this:
sudo -u my_user sh -c "first && second"
If you ...
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When using custom keys, what permissions do "/var/lib/tor/hidden_service/" need?
I don't know if it is strictly necessary, for me it works with these permissions:
700 (or drwx------) for the folder (folder2 in your case)
600 (or -rw-------) for the private_key file.
Both owned ...
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How can Wget be configured to work with Torify securely?
Personally, I think the wiki stuff is outdated and needs some kinda purge with fire.
Here's how Tails does it:
#!/bin/sh
unset http_proxy
unset HTTP_PROXY
unset https_proxy
unset HTTPS_PROXY
exec ...
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I want upload a file to a ftp server using Tor proxy to comunicate with a Hidden Service [Python 3]
The tl;dr is that FTP and .onion do not go well together and never will, due to how the FTP protocol works. For more details, see below.
FTP goes a little like this:
Client connects to the "command" ...
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Cannot persist NoScript settings on TorBrowser 8
This is a known issue: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27175
Looks like the fix will be released very soon with the next update.
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Tor Browser, Signature verification Failed, Cant check signature: No public key
Check out the Tor Project's signing keys page for more info.
If you followed that tutorial exactly, then you imported a single developer's signing key, but this is not the key used to sign the ...
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How does one execute JavaScript using Tor network without human interaction?
I found a way to do that on linux:
apt-get install tor
download Multi-TOR from here: https://github.com/jseidl/Multi-TOR
run ./multi-tor.sh 10 for 10 socks ports (for example)
You can use selenium or ...
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Post install questions
If you've installed tor as a system service through OpenSUSE's package manager:
You can define where tor logs to through use of Log directives in the torrc file, located by default in /etc/tor/torrc.
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Serious TCP Bug in Linux Systems?
Tor developer Isis Agora Lovecruft has published a blog post on this.
CVE-2016-5696 and its effects on Tor
tl;dr: This vulnerability is quite serious, but it doesn’t affect the Tor network any ...
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How to start tor on boot in Raspian Jessie?
The best way is to use a three components:
/etc/rc.local - It's a script that is executed on boot. I'm using it to start the components I need - see how downstrings.
A daemontools package - it's ...
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How to start tor on boot in Raspian Jessie?
You can make Tor start on boot by running (as root):
update-rc.d tor enable
Because you compiled Tor from source, you may not have the files to automatically start Tor at boot. If it says some file ...
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Autostart tor on Linux Mint / Ubuntu
Related to this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=808296
Solved using
mkdir /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]/
(echo "[Service]"; echo "AppArmorProfile=") > /etc/...
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Autostart tor on Linux Mint / Ubuntu
The issue is that the package is aimed at ubuntu, the systemd service file expects apparmor to be there it tries to enforce the profile but the profile isnt loaded or cant be loaded, to remedy this ...
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Can I install Tor by making source lists HTTPS
You have different possibilities to download Tor. Each comes with different advantages or disadvantages:
HTTP: This is the default method which is offered through the Tor website. Usually HTTP works ...
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How to make tor browser work with the system tor service rather than the tor service provided with the browser
From the guide I wrote, available on the Tor Project wiki here:
Add or edit the following lines in your torrc:
# add these flags to SocksPort to act like Tor Browser
SocksPort 9050 IPv6Traffic ...
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Could not bind to 127.0.0.1:9050: Address already in use. Is Tor already running? (Whonix)
Good day,
You'll have to run "whonixsetup" after adding your bridges to torrc and reload Tor afterwards.
Either way, going through this should help you get along nicely: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/...
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Tor don't stop after terminal being closed
Here's the Linux way to do it:
In a terminal, use "sudo service tor stop." If that doesn't work, try going to System Monitor and ending the process from there. If THAT doesn't work, go to your ...
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How to specify ExitNodes in Linux?
GeoIP needs to be installed for Tor to be able to determine in what country a exit relay is.
You can install it using sudo apt install tor-geoipdb.
From the logs:
We've been configured to use (or ...
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Can't connect to Tor
You have accidently pressed the Enter when you was editing it - right here :
#HashedControlPassword
16:872860B76453A77D60CA2BB8C1A7042072093276A3D701AD684053EC4C
#CookieAuthentication 1
so it ...
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Error in Tails Error opening directory 'home/amnesia'
Firstly, Tails uses apparmor to restrict Tor Browser's access to the file system, it can only save files to ~/Tor Browser or ~/Persistence/Tor Browser. For more details on this, see my answer here.
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